If there is one thing I am tired of in this adulting life, it is renting a house, and if wishes were horses, I would definitely be a rider living in my dream house right now, because trust me, I've had it to my full. For someone living in Lagos, Nigeria, being lucky to rent a good apartment feels like the biblical camel passing through the eye of a needle.

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Starting with the high cost of renting an apartment, not forgetting the agent and agreement fees that tags along, which in most cases might even be more than the actual rent, then you get taken to several nonsense house that you can't even imagine your enemy living, this is after stating the kind of house you want to the agent. for instance, how do you explain an agent taking you to a house where the entrance is the kitchen, then the toilet before you walk into the living room, hilarious right? Yet I have experienced this during my last house hunting, and I almost felt like strangling the nonsense agent.

I feel they do this intentionally to frustrate you, so when they eventually take you to a more reasonable place after the 100th time, you will feel like you have no better choice than to pay the high cost placed on this one.

Personally, when looking out for a house, the first thing I do is pray, because these days, you could even find a house that feels so right on the surface, but when you move in, it feels so wrong, so till my own home materialised, as long as i'm moving to someone else's foundation, prayers first, then a clean environment, less number of tenants or neighbours, good water supply, stable electricity, stable internet, If I could afford a good business location, this would also be on the list, but we all know that those type of areas are usually high cost, so for now, I just stick to a more residential area that ticks most boxes, because somehow, a fault usually pops up somewhere eventually.

I made sure to check these boxes before I rented my current apartment, and the new criteria I gave the agent was that I didn't want a house with a live-in landlord, because of the hell and troubles I had with the previous place I stayed. Luckily, I did find one, but the issue of not having the landlord around is that, if anything gets faulty, it takes them ages to get it fixed since they are not directly affected, still, I still prefer the current peace I have in this place, I discovered all I had to do to get him to fix what needs to be fixed is to constantly be on his neck, it took long though, as our borehole had issues and another one needed to be drilled, imagine fetching water outside barely two months after moving in, since the house gave no issue other than that, i was on his neck until recently when it just got fixed, and water running again in the house.

I just pray this is the last house I ever rent. Hopefully, soon, I'll get to move to mine.

Thank you for reading.❤❤